Overview
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What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
As one of the largest and best respected planning teams in the UK, the Planning Consultancy team specialise in providing commercial planning advice to a wide-range of private and public sector clients. It is a growing front end planning team which advises on development proposals throughout all stages of the planning process from feasibility, plan promotion, application, EIA and appeal. Our growing Heritage team is integral to the Planning Consultancy team, with heritage advice involved in many of our projects.
Our projects range from complex city centre regeneration sites, tall buildings, strategic housing promotion, repurposing town centres, retail development, sports and leisure, logistics and major business parks, through to detailed listed building reuse. We act for developers, land owners, home builders, registered providers, financial institutions, strategic promoters, retailers and operators. We are proud to be involved in leading some of the UK’s largest and most high-profile schemes.
We are looking to recruit enthusiastic team players with a can do attitude. Candidates will have some private sector consultancy or local authority experience, a proven ability to deliver to a high standard, strong communication skills, passion to share their knowledge and a desire to learn and contribute to the on-going success of our team.
You will be a Planner/Senior Heritage Planner with a good knowledge and experience of assessing heritage assets as part of the planning process, including through planning applications, permitted development, policy frameworks, plan promotion and the appeal process. You will be well versed in using critical thinking to prepare statements of significance, heritage impact assessments, heritage chapters in EIA and heritage appraisals and strategies. You will have experience of negotiating with planning authorities and stakeholders including Historic England.
You will have demonstrable experience, with the confidence and initiative to run projects themselves, but also work within a team on large scale projects. Ideally, you already have private sector experience, but this is not a pre-requisite.
Ideally, you will be IHBC and/or RPTI accredited.
As one of the world’s leading professional services and technical consultancy firms, at WSP, we’re passionate about the big questions. And big answers, naturally. For us that’s all about reaching beyond the expected, to do work that’ll make a profound impact felt long into the future.
A Little More About Your Role
* Devising heritage and conservation strategies, advising alongside other planning and development colleagues.
* Preparing briefing notes that set out the likelihood of achieving listed building consent and planning permission for development proposals.
* Drafting statements of significance and heritage impact assessments in a clear and persuasive way, to support development proposals.
* Attending site visits, design team and client meetings.
* Managing project delivery and budgetary control.
* Working collaboratively with colleagues from across WSP, for example in the Sustainability Teams, to ensure their advice is factored into the combined advice provided to clients by WSP.
* Liaising with clients and teams to respond to consultation feedback.
What we will be looking for you to demonstrate
* Ideally you will be IHBC and/or RPTI accredited.
* Degree level qualification in town planning (or equivalent).
* Strong technical skills.
* A commercial approach to heritage consultancy and development.
* A desire to work in a growing planning team, surrounded and supported by a raft of fellow professionals.
* Strong organisational and communication skills.
* Strong analytical skills.
* Drive and determination.
About Us
We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 72,800 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.
What’s in it for you?
* Work-life balance: Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.
* Inclusivity & Belonging: We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP. We have our employee resource groups bring together employees and allies with different backgrounds to promote our culture of inclusivity.
* Health & Wellbeing: Thrive programme, Virtual GP service with NHS/Irish Medical Council GP, reasonable workplace adjustments, Gymflex scheme (up to 40% off gym memberships), menopause support.
* Flex your time: WSP My Hour – take one hour each day for personal activities, with flexible time carryover. Part-time and flexible working arrangements, option to purchase additional leave, and bank holiday entitlement flexibility.
* Your development: Training, mentoring, and Chartership opportunities.
* #WeAreWSP / EEO: We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria; please let us know if you require workplace adjustments.
Job Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Other
* Industries: Professional Services
Equal Employment Opportunity
Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.
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